IHG vs. WTB, NXT, SKG, JD, MKS, BKG, SMDS, TW, HWDN, and ENT Should you be buying InterContinental Hotels Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InterContinental Hotels Group include Whitbread (WTB), NEXT (NXT), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), JD Sports Fashion (JD), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), DS Smith (SMDS), Taylor Wimpey (TW), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), and Entain (ENT). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Whitbread (LON:WTB ) and InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG ) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
Whitbread has higher revenue and earnings than InterContinental Hotels Group. Whitbread is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterContinental Hotels Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.2% of Whitbread shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Whitbread shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Whitbread received 452 more outperform votes than InterContinental Hotels Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.73% of users gave Whitbread an outperform vote while only 50.65% of users gave InterContinental Hotels Group an outperform vote.
Whitbread has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Whitbread pays an annual dividend of GBX 97 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 123 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Whitbread pays out 6,062.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 3,484.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Whitbread had 4 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Whitbread and 1 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. Whitbread's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.26 indicating that InterContinental Hotels Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Whitbread currently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,192.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.71%. InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus target price of GBX 6,415, suggesting a potential downside of 18.57%. Given InterContinental Hotels Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Whitbread is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a net margin of 20.12% compared to InterContinental Hotels Group's net margin of 10.50%. InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity of 32.72% beat Whitbread's return on equity.
Summary Whitbread beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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